I think you're largely boned. We don't sell Windows 2008 VPSes with less than 20GB of space, since our base images (really, really base -- nothing in them we can easily remove) consume about 14GB of space before putting anything useful on the machine.

Well.. I can always upgrade to the next plan which is only 50% more money but one more core, 512MB more RAM and 16GB more HDD. However it seems like selling a car with 1/4 gallon tank. Nothing to do except buy-back..
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Andrei RineaNov 17 '09 at 16:35

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+1 for "largely boned". A 2008 box with 16GB is near useless...
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squillmanNov 17 '09 at 16:58

@Andrei: Yeah, I'd be a bit suspicious of a company that was willing to sell you a Win2k8 server with so little disk, but you have to take that with a grain of salt because I work in that business myself. Certainly I'd be asking them their opinion on the subject, though, to see what they have to say.
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wombleNov 17 '09 at 17:06

I am really sorry I went to accept SomeName's answer but in a practical way it was the most useful. HOWEVER your answer is the eye opener and gives me strength to better negotiate my terms with the hoster. I wish I could have chosen yours too..
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Andrei RineaNov 17 '09 at 19:07

Well, you can always go and upvote two of my other answers at random or something... <grin>
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wombleNov 17 '09 at 19:17

I'll be doing a thorough analysis of the largest folders and their subfolders to see where the lump is. For now C:\WINDOWS occupies like 95%
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Andrei RineaNov 17 '09 at 16:35

@djangofan: if you're referring to all the $NtUninstallxxx$ compressed folders that you're used to seeing in Server 2003, those don't exist any more as of Vista/2008. I think they may have been absorbed into the very confusing winsxs folder.
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ThatGraemeGuyNov 17 '09 at 18:11